It could easily appropriate the name of that popular movie, "Diary
of a Mad Black Woman" but Adele Ramos isn't that, she's an artiste on a
serious hot streak. We first introduced the Amandala's assistant editor as "Black
Orchid" two weeks ago and since then she has been in the studio putting
in serious work. Last week Adele released not one but two CDs of dub poetry.
The CDs are titled "Raw" and "Red Graffiti." "Raw "is
an 18 track disc of short poems while "Red Graffiti" is a fourteen
track set of edgy poems which read and reveal like the pages of Adele's diary.
She told us more about the new release.
Adele Ramos, 'Black Orchid'
"Red Graffiti is an album of poetry and music. You have dub poems, poems
against a musical background, with singing, with humming. You have for example,
you are not alone, which is music and poetry married together. So a part of
it sounds like singing, a part of it sounds like dub, and at the end of it there
is a guy, 357, who raps at the end of that song. So it is a really rich dynamic
piece.
On Black Orchid Raw it is poetry mostly without music. I music in the intro
and the outro and as a transition. But apart from that it is pure voice."
You can purchase a copy of the CDs by contacting Adele Ramos at 602-0181
or through her website at http://www.myspace.com/blackorchidbelize.
7NEWS
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